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Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word.
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A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.
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Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.
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Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the…
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The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal…
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And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone or something…
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Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that…
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If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage…
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At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.... The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my every muscle,…
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Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered…
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I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the…
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The telling of stories creates the real world.
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Well, my father was in the Army and we traveled quite a bit when I was growing up, and I thought that…
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The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in.
— David Amram
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I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the…
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Yeah, my dad was in the foreign service. We lived in India, Indonesia and Africa, and we traveled a lot from those…
— Dylan Walsh
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I was with a folk trio back in '63 and '64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe.
— Creed Bratton
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Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with…
— Etta James
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Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never…
— Kinky Friedman
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Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane…
— Sylvia Plath
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We traveled for two weeks with a pickled hippo.
— Sara Gruen
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My father was a big influence - it was very important to him that we traveled, and he gave me my strong…
— Marcus Samuelsson
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I grew up in a Navy family, and like most service families, we traveled a lot and moved a lot. I grew…
— Alan G. Poindexter
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We were impressed with the size and scope of the Persian Gulf as we traveled to Islamabad, Pakistan.
— Jon Porter
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